Earlier this year, a judge ruled against a Texas law that would force women seeing abortions to have a sonogram at least 24 hours before the procedure, listen to the fetal heartbeat, and hear a detailed description of the fetus' limbs and organs. U.S. district Judge Sam Sparks found that the law violates physicians'…

Pro-choice activists have filed a lawsuit to overturn a new Texas law that would require women to undergo a sonogram and hear a doctor describe the image. U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks said in court yesterday that he'll rule on the law before it takes effect on October 1.